Hi I’m new to this distro and am looking forward to using it on my Thinkpad
I have a setup so far that consists solely of W7. I have an 80gb HDD and allocated 20gb to W7. I’m not too worried about space b/c I don’t store stuff on my computer. I have music on my PDA, flashcards, and DVD’s.
I set up an extra ext3 partition that is 8gb for OpenSuse. I’m not a noob to linux but am not an expert either. I was wondering if that 8gb is too little b/c I use 8gb on another laptop I have with Ubuntu w/o any probs!
What I really am asking for is I noticed that you can divide up the partitions to /swap, /root, and /home. I have 1.5 gb RAM and can easily extend that ext3 b/c nothing is after it. How big should a /root be and a /home???
You should call it just /, not /root, which actually does exist, and is the $HOME of the superuser.
I would give a little bit more to / so that you have room for more software. Perhaps 12 or 16GB. Mine is over 8G and I use KDE. If I had both GNOME and KDE it would be larger. But then I probably have quite a bit cached in /var/cache/squid.
You can allocate the rest of your space to /home, where user directories live.
I would say, depending on what extras you plan to install, use:
/ = 8 - 10 gb
swap=1gb
and the rest /home.
If you are storing data to an external drive or usb, then you could use less for /home.
If you are going to be installing a lot of extras, go with Malcom’s 17gb for /. This will probably allow the system to be upgraded to a future version that needs more space in / because the basic install has become so large.
Hi
Using a little bit extra for / also helps if your burning DVD’s
(~4.5GB or ~8GB if Dual Layer) because it will cache to /tmp unless you
specify an external drive (if/when on is connected).
What I normally do with k3b is change the temporary directory to somewhere with more space. It could be a subdirectory within $HOME or somewhere you use to store lots of data, in my case /home/data which is a separate partition.
Also k3b will tell you how much space it needs and how much there is before doing the image creation.
I have a desktop I use for transcoding and other AVI tasks. Heavy duty things are relegated to that unit. I don’t plan on creating anything disc related with my laptop except burning ISO images. I’d like to stick with a small /home size. I’m thinking of making this a 20gb partition now.
As far as upgrading goes can’t I just clone the /home partition and insert it into the next OpenSuse? That way I won’t have to dedicate the twenty to that part??? I know I’m being miserly but if I can do 20 gb with W7 I’m sure I can do it with Linux right???
Edit:
Don’t know if I’m making any sense so please bear with me
> I would say, depending on what extras you plan to install, use: / = 8 -
> 10 gb
> swap=1gb
I tend to make my swap the same size as the memory in the system in case
I want to/need to use hibernate functionality. It’s always been my
understanding (and seems to be backed up by a few things on the web) that
hibernation uses swap space to store the RAM image, so if swap is smaller
than RAM, you can’t use hibernation.
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:26:02 +0000, whych wrote:
>
>> I would say, depending on what extras you plan to install, use: / = 8 -
>> 10 gb
>> swap=1gb
>
> I tend to make my swap the same size as the memory in the system in case
> I want to/need to use hibernate functionality. It’s always been my
> understanding (and seems to be backed up by a few things on the web) that
> hibernation uses swap space to store the RAM image, so if swap is smaller
> than RAM, you can’t use hibernation.
That is almost correct; however, the hibernate image is compressed,
thus it could be a lot smaller than RAM size.
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:39:35 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:26:02 +0000, whych wrote:
>>
>>> I would say, depending on what extras you plan to install, use: / = 8
>>> - 10 gb
>>> swap=1gb
>>
>> I tend to make my swap the same size as the memory in the system in
>> case I want to/need to use hibernate functionality. It’s always been
>> my understanding (and seems to be backed up by a few things on the web)
>> that hibernation uses swap space to store the RAM image, so if swap is
>> smaller than RAM, you can’t use hibernation.
>
> That is almost correct; however, the hibernate image is compressed, thus
> it could be a lot smaller than RAM size.
True, I hadn’t thought of that. I think it’s also encrypted, isn’t it?
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:39:35 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
>> That is almost correct; however, the hibernate image is compressed, thus
>> it could be a lot smaller than RAM size.
>
> True, I hadn’t thought of that. I think it’s also encrypted, isn’t it?
A quick read of the file Documentation/power/swsusp.txt shows that
encryption is possible; however, I think it is optional.
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:09:06 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:39:35 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> That is almost correct; however, the hibernate image is compressed,
>>> thus it could be a lot smaller than RAM size.
>>
>> True, I hadn’t thought of that. I think it’s also encrypted, isn’t
>> it?
>
> A quick read of the file Documentation/power/swsusp.txt shows that
> encryption is possible; however, I think it is optional.
Yeah, that’s what I was reading as well - wasn’t sure if it was still
using swsusp or the newer one (suspend2, I think it’s called).
